
By Steven Musil
Published: Monday 13 December 2004
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Name
Roy Corneloues
Location
Essex
Occupation
Delivery Manager
Comment
I'm using firefox and thunderbird as my preferred web and mail clients now.
However because of MS's dominence over the last few years you have a large number of web sites that only work in IE or exploit IE features that are not supported by FF.
So you have a situation now where the success of FF is dependent on the design and development worlds. They will need to switch to supporting the open W3C web standards that FF is built on, or revert back to the old days of coding versions of the site for each browser.
If anything MS's dominence will continue as long as they do nothing to bring IE up to date. So MS will win, but not even raising a finger to change a single line of code...
If users switch to Firefox are they protected from...
Mark Riley
Mark,
You cannot uninstall IE completely as MS ...
Anonymous
I'm using firefox and thunderbird as my preferred ...
Roy Corneloues
Maybe Apple could develop a Windows version of Saf...
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